Carlos Alcaraz Aiming for Early New Year Revenge over Sinner
Locker Room
January 9, 2026
Carlos Alcaraz won’t be worrying too much about the mind-boggling amounts of money on offer in Seoul and Melbourne.
The Spaniard is already rich beyond his wildest dreams and has more money than he could easily spend in a natural lifetime.
For Alcaraz, the early clashes of 2026 are all about trying to establish a winning pattern over his arch-rival Jannik Sinner. The 2025 year-end finals didn’t go his way.
Carlos Alcaraz will want his grass court crown back at Wimbledon 2026 too! The psychological battle starts now.
Sinner denied him a hat-trick of Wimbledon singles tiles on Centre Court last year. And in a few weeks, Carlitos would dearly love to return the compliment.
Jannik has won the last two Australian Open titles. So Alcaraz would like to deny the Italian his own hat-trick at the first Grand Slam of the year.
Before that, we will see the world’s two greatest players face off in South Korea. For playing this exhibition match, both men will be handsomely rewarded.
Indeed, they would have to actually win the Aussie Open to better this particular pay cheque.
Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner will each receive around £1.7 million for their first showdown of the year on Saturday in Asia.
For reaching the final of the Australian Open, they stand to receive less – “only” £1.07 million.
The winner of the “Happy Slam” in Melbourne will pocket an amazing £2.05 million, though. And there’s a stunning 19 per cent pay rise on last year across the board.
The rewards will mean more to lower ranked players than the greatest stars of our sport. Just for making the first round proper in Australia, men and women will receive £74,000.
That rises to £112,000 for winning one match – and £162, 659 for reaching the third round.
But for Alcaraz and Sinner, it is all about improving their respective games – and pushing themselves enough to be able to call themselves the best.
The urge and even the necessity to hit greater heights is why Alcaraz calls this rivalry ‘a gift.’
Carlos Alcaraz is world number one at the start of this mouth-watering year. How long will that last? It’ll be fun finding out.
Would you love to see Alcaraz play Sinner on Centre Court at the Wimbledon 2026 final? Who would bet against that scenario?
Whatever happens, the tennis on offer at Wimbledon 2026 will be sure to bring stratospheric levels of excitement to the show courts.
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